It was our alone at peace time.”įrench, 35, who was a chaperone for the teens, said she is still trying to formulate opportunities for more youngsters from the Delaware Nation “to come back” to where ancestors lived. “I really enjoyed when we got to the cliff,” Pemberton said, “to reflect on the trip. Wilson said providing people with a chance to hear what the Delaware Nation generation experienced in coming to their ancestral homeland fit one of the conference’s tracks: Indigenous perspectives. Jim Wilson, a board member with the Lehigh Valley Watershed Coalition, arranged for the four to come to the Valley and attend the conference. Kyle Kauwika Harris, who produced and directed the award-winning 90-minute film “The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland” also will be at Tuesday afternoon’s roundtable discussion. “It was such a huge component in our life,” she said Monday, ahead of the final day of the ninth Lehigh Valley Watershed Conference at Lehigh University.įrench, Sariah Pemberton and Debbie Eckiwaudah Jr., all descendants of the Delaware Nation who live in southwest Oklahoma, will present a roundtable about a 2016 film project they participated in. To Lauryn French, a member of the Delaware Nation, the lives of her ancestors in the Easton area and elsewhere in the region revolved around water - from the Atlantic Ocean to the Delaware River to areas such as the Delaware Water Gap.
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